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Punched-tape music box kit

"There are no pins, but a strip of paper, which you punch yourself. That's right, you punch all your own songs! No more listening to "Memory" - it's time for Koji Kondo's greatest hits (the genius behind many of Mario's and Link's most memorable themes). We'd love to chat more, but it's time for us to compose a lullaby for Princess Peach."

Ah, punched tape. The oldest successful binary data storage medium lives on. ThinkGeek even provides a link to a PDF punched-tape encoding the Super Mario Brothers theme. Could this be the start of a whole new kind of music filesharing?